It was dishonest. How should this be viewed? I would guess she keeps her senate position but does not run for the Democratic nomination for President.
It was dishonest. How should this be viewed? I would guess she keeps her senate position but does not run for the Democratic nomination for President.
What 'advantage" did she gain? It was on an administrative, registration form for her application to the Texas Bar.
But supposedly she does have at least some Native American ancestry. I'm not sure I have a problem with her claiming it.
But supposedly she does have at least some Native American ancestry. I'm not sure I have a problem with her claiming it.
I wonder if she ever dressed up in redface?
She has a distant (8 generations back) ancestor who has genetic markers common to certain native americans. She knows nothing about that person apart from some gossip in the family that some such person might exist.
Her identification of herself as native american gets into the benefit issue... if there was a business or program giving some affirmative action kind of preference towards native americans and she benefitted from that, that's something where she's potentially taken a benefit intended for someone who has been wronged in some form or fashion that neither she, nor her immediate family has.
That is all separate to the discussions around the validity of DNA typing in this fashion.
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Lmao
This is just another phony ass right wing attempt at character assassination, aimed at discrediting liberals who may prove to be a challenge to their alternate reality universe of racists, bigots, con artists, liars, money grabbers, shills, and shysters, from the Oval Office on down.
The b------------- like to make a lot of noise about this kind of bullshit, and they even get Democrats to buy into the smear, while they DEFLECT and DISTRACT from the Criminal in Chief and his clown show of an "administration" (to broadly use the term) who, even as we speak, are in the process of taking the American public to the fkng CLEANERS.
One reason why Warren had the test done (she said) was because Trump challenged her to prove it, pledging a MILLION to charity if she did. Needless to say, the fkr waffled afterward:
Elizabeth Warren DNA test: Trump responds to question of $1 million charity promise - The Washington Post
As far as any "advantage" she gained in DOING so (except the satisfaction of shutting up the smug b---------d) I'd say she gained no more advantage than every so-called "Irishman" who magically appears on St Patrick's day.
Democrats need to WAKE UP to the right winged CON job, and stop letting these mfkrs run 'em around.
That's pure bullshit. People get DNA tests all the time. She was challenged to do so, and she did. She didn't benefit from it. And a stunt at the expense of Native Americans??So you understand that less than 1% is not statistically significant in anyone's genetic makeup, and that these tests are not accepted by any Indigenous Nation right? Taking it was a stunt at the expense of Native Americans who told her time and time again not to do it. I'm certainly not a conservative by any means or measure but science and basic cultural competency are not simply issues to be tossed aside. Warren is not the best candidate and she can't beat Trump. You can do much better than Warren, whose effectiveness as a legislator as admirable as it has been, doesn't translate to leadership and on this issue, she has crashed and burned by putting the people she claimed to be from under the bus in a petty fight with a tyrant in diapers.
I understand the basis of Native American objections to this, bud. I've read them already.
I'm just pointing out how some Democrats, and even some so-called "independents" continue to allow the right to lead them into knee jerk MUCH ADO about LITTLE instead of keeping an eye on the BIGGER picture...I.E. WHO has been consistently working to ROLL BACK the rights and protections of Native Americas
We (or at least SOME) TOO easily let the RIGHT set the fkng NARRATIVE. And as I've written numerous times BEFORE, in that regard, they play us like a country FIDDLE.
That's MY opinion on the subject.
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